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Because its resources are now much scarcer than they have been, the University will have to make choices in the years ahead to abandon some programs in order to continue others. It will almost certainly have to do this in order to continue the Staff Tuition Scholarship program. The University community has the right and should receive the information it needs to participate in these choices...
...people angered by Harvard's rigidity. With little advertising other than word of mouth, the program's enrollment jumped from 35 in the fall of 1970 to 98 this fall. Registration for the spring semester is running ahead of the fall, and soon the pottery may be forced to abandon its policy of unlimited registration because of space constraints...
...rights for U.S. commercial airlines in China (maybe later). There will also be talks (probably inconclusive) about divided Korea, Sino-Soviet relations and the future relationships between the U.S. and China in Asia. Still another subject for discussion is the future of Taiwan. The U.S. will not, of course, abandon its treaty agreements with the island republic. But Washington has finally accepted Peking's position that the future of Taiwan is essentially an internal Chinese problem, to be worked out by Peking and Taipei. Peking seems to accept the logic of the U.S. position that it cannot sever...
...enlivens the gray Bavarian midwinter, scores of halls had been decorated with tinfoil, blinking lights, papier-mache figures of fun, and corners intentionally left dark. No fewer than seven carnival princes and princesses had been named, complete with courts and shapely girl guards. All was ready for Milnchner to abandon themselves, as they always had, to a month of drinking, swiving-judges do not consider adultery grounds for divorce during Fasching-and foolery unequaled anywhere else in Europe...
...degree, a first-term Senator's need to make a large number of public appearances in his home state, Brooke's voting record for 1971 fell below 80 per cent. Like most Senators, Brooke feels that the law of diminishing return applies, and that it is counter-productive to abandon other activities in order to vote on more than 90 per cent of Senate business. However, with key Senate liberals like Fred Harris of Oklahoma answering only 44 per cent of the roll calls and George McGovern only 59 per cent of the votes during the first nine months...